That sounds like a very good summary of the situation as I would view it. Cheers,
Anthony Richardson On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Joshua Partogi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Anthony Richardson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Where I work we are using ExtJs heavily for an Corporate Intranet >> application. I think ExtJs is excellent for "corporate" style web >> *applications*. I'm not sure I would use it for a mass market public >> website however. >> >> For the record the applications front end is almost all constructed in >> Javascript with almost not views or HTML predefined. > > Thanks Anthony. No wonder I've never seen a Rails apps using ExtJS, it > turns out to be hiding behind the corporate door. :P > > I'm starting to feel like that corporate intranet use fullstack > widgets because it has the needs to have a desktop like application > running on the browser. And using widgets like ExtJS is a perfect fit > for these needs. You could also spend more time on the business logic > as default functionality from these widgets is already sufficient for > user interaction needs. And corporate intranet application is not > heavily concentrating on user experience as much as public facing > internet application. > > But with public facing application, a fullstack widgets might feel a > little bit too overkill and sometimes it is easier to be able to get > to the lowest level to manipulate the DOM. Using html, css and > javascript framework like jQuery is already sufficient enough for > these type of application. As for public facing application, the user > interaction is usually more sophisticated because the user experience > is much more important but on the other hand the business logic is > much simpler, therefore you would spend more time on the front-end > rather than the backend. > > Please correct my very premature understanding about this if I still > get it wrong. > > Thanks for the insights guys! > > -- > Certified Scrum Master > Post agile jobs for free: http://jobs.scrum8.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
